This Saint Will Change Your Life: 300 Heavenly Allies for Architects, Athletes, Bloggers, Brides, Librarians, Murderers, Whales, Widows, and You

by Thomas J. Craughwell

Overview

Heaven Help Us!

Your days of worry and frustration are over. Whoever you are, whatever you do, there’s a patron saint who wants to help you—specifically you—with your troubles. This Saint Will Change Your Life features 300 patron saints for every person and situation imaginable.

     •  There are patron saints for travelers, vegetarians, and women in labor.
     •  For gamblers, lawyers, and parents with disappointing children.
     •  For families stressed by houseguests.
     •  For victims of toothaches, appendicitis, and sore throats.
     •  For beekeepers, booksellers, sailors, schoolgirls, and even (we kid you not) vampire hunters!

This Saint Will Change Your Life! describes the real-life histories of an amazing variety of holy figures from the Christian faith and reveals how each became associated with particular beneficiaries. Also included are reproductions of 300 full-color holy cards depicting these heavenly helpers in all their glory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781594745287
Publisher:	Quirk Publishing
Publication date:	11/01/2011
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 6.90(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Thomas J. Craughwell has written about saints for the Wall Street Journal, Inside the Vatican, and Catholic Digest, among other national publications. He lives in New York.

Editorial Reviews

Artfully written and beautifully illustrated.”—The Beacon

From the Publisher

This visually opulent revision of This Saint's for You! (2007) loosely simulates a holy text, with print the color of aging gold leaf and richly hued holy card illustrations. Craughwell (Saints Behaving Badly) organizes 300 saints alphabetically by affliction or profession, opening with accountants and ending with yachtsmen and profiling the saints to be invoked in case of calamities, coughs, miscarriages, and moles. Each engaging one-page entry incorporates the saint's birth and death dates, feast days, a brief biography, and successful historical invocations. A four-page bibliography and by-saint index round out this entertaining and informative volume.

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